Give us a background lesson in Spit & Mac. How long have you been writing and performing together?
Spit: We had both been solo artists before we formed Spit & Mac. I think we performed together live a few times and that was heaps of fun. We chilled a lot outside of music so the dynamic worked for us straight away, once we dropped our first song together Cold Of Winte” and it got a really good response, we kind of made it official I guess and started making plans for an album.
Tell us about the album The Hourglass?
S: It’s the culmination of years of hard work, it has had many changing faces over the last three-four years but in the end we finally found and album we were happy to release. It’s 17 tracks, there is a range of content and crazy production on there and we worked and collaborated with some very talented people along the way.
Tell us about the process in making the album and what inspired you during the creative process, etc?
S: The inspiration for the album comes from a combination of different music we have loved and been influenced by, our past present and future, pain, happiness, sadness, determination and love for creating something that represents us. Putting it all together was a massive struggle at times, there were lots of sunrises were seen while I was obsessing over making a beat or trying to get a track finished but now it’s all said and done, it was worth it.
How would you like people to describe The Hourglass to their friends?
Mac: I would want them to say there’s not a bad track on the album, that they relate to it and they notice the attention to detail that was taken.
The album has been out for a couple of weeks now, how has it all gone so far and what are plans your plans from here?
M: The response so far has been absolutely crazy, we couldn’t have hoped for anything more. At this stage we are just really keen to just share our music with friends and supporters and we are obviously both really looking forward to doing some live shows too.
Anything you would like to add, where to purchase, shows to look out for, etc?
M: If you are keen to check out our single featuring Imogen Brough you can visit the Facebook page, if you want to buy the album you can do so at spitandmac1.bandcamp.com and the album is on iTunes. We will be doing shows in a couple of months from now so keep an eye out.
